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Every time I check my local Thrift shops for bikes I come up with mid 90's Huffys. I dream of the day I find a bianchi.
While I have found my share of nice bikes at thrift stores over the years, they last a couple of nanoseconds. So unless you are extremely lucky, or make camping out at thrift stores a full time job, you probably will not find one. Before the economy turned to crap, it was a lot easier to find them. But since then, the thrift stores, garage sales, church sales, etc., are mobbed by pickers, looking for anything to turn a buck.